JCC CenterStag
www.jcccenterstage.org
1200 Edgewood Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618

Ralph Meranto
Producing Artistic Director, CenterStage Theatre
Director of Arts & Culture, Jewish Community Center
Louis S. Wolk JCC, 1200 Edgewood Ave, Rochester, NY 14618
(585) 461-2000 ext 236
rmeranto@jccrochester.org

Under Artistic Director/producer Ralph Meranto, CenterStage produces a 6-show season of plays, musicals, and other events with a focus on new work development and presenting world/regional premieres. Development works including World Premiere productions of Jason Odell Williams’ Church & State (Off Broadway New World Stages/OBA Nominee for Best New Play), Kasha Davis’ There’s Always Time for a Cocktail (Off-Broadway Premiere Beechman Theater), Wendy Kout’s Survivors and Naked in Encino and Hank Kimmel’s Welcome to the Neighborhood as well as early development productions of Jason Odell Williams’ Handle with Care,
David Hein/Irene Sankoff’s My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, Deb Margolin’s Imagining Madoff and Deborah Zoe Laufer’s The Last Schwartz.

OUR MISSION: “CenterStage at the Jewish Community Center exists to entertain, enlighten and educate the Greater Rochester community by providing quality theatre that is relevant to the Jewish experience and has universal appeal.”

Current season information can be found at www.jcccenterstage.org